Wire-bound package



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WIRE-BOUND PACKAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 21, 1921.

Application filed December 2, 1919. Serial No. 342,006.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, JEFFERSON CAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Wire-Bound Package, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a comparatively light but very rigid wirebound package, capable of use in the transportation of comparatively heavy objects, especially those which are circular or cylindrical, as, for instance, tires, wheels, wheel rims, etc.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention. Figure 1 is a plan of a crate embodying my invention; Fig. 2 a perspective of said crate; and Fig. 3 a section on an enlarged scale, on line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

In the drawings, S, S indicate a series of associated crate boX sides comprising Series of mating cleats 10, sheet or side material 11 and binding wires 12, attached to the sheets and cleats by suitable staples 13, the construction being such that when the parts are folded into package form, the cleats of each series will abut adjacent cleats. As is common in packages of this kind, the ends of the binding wires 12 project beyond the final sides of the series so that they may be twisted together, as indicated at 14.

The ends of the package are formedby thin alates or sheets 15, 16, carrying cleats 17 a jacent their ends preferably spaced therefrom a distance substantially equal to the radial dimension of cleats 10, and spaced apart substantially equal to the diametrical distance between cleats 10, 10. Cleats 17 are conveniently attached to their sheets 15 or 16 by staples 18, which, at'the same time, serve to attach the suspension wires 19 which extend laterally across the ends of sheets 15, 16, and project considerably ibeyond the same, the arrangement being such that these projected ends may be brought out over adjacent cleats and thence under the ad* jacent binding wire 12, after being first drawn taut, twisted into an eye embracing said binding wire 12. l

The packages embodying my invention are preferably those having more than four sides and practically those having an even number of sides, more than four, although this is not absolutely essential.

In practice, I find it convenient to provide a horse which will support the middle and two adjacent sides S of the blank in approximate position, whereupon, the sheet 1G at each end of the package, may have one end placed in position with relation to the middle side of the `blank and secured in place by manipulation of the wires 19 in the manner already described. Thereupon, the members are placed in position and one end of each of the wires 19 secured in place. This leaves three of the sides S (in a sixsided package) free to give free access to the interior of the package. The package is then loaded with the contents which it is to contain, whereupon, the remaining sides S are swung into position, the ends of wires 12 twisted together; and the remaining ends of wires 19 drawn tightly up over the adjacent cleats 10 and bent around the adjacent wires 12. The wires 19 thus firmly bind the adjacent series of cleats l0 into a complete polygon, three adjacent cleats, the connecting wire 19, and the member 15S-17, or 1G-17, cooperating together to form a very rigid truss so that each end of the package comprises a series of interconnected coperating trusses, the truss at one side of the package strengthening and coperating with the truss at the diametrically-opposite point through the cross sheets 1.5-16.

I have found in practice that a crate of thin veneers and comparatively light cleats is, nevertheless, capable of successfully carrying a load of automobile wheels weighing over 250 pounds.

I claim as my invention:

1. A. wirebound package comprising a circumferential series of mating cleats, a bind ing wire encircling said series, an end member forming a strut across the series, and wires attached to said end member and eX- tcnding transversely thereof, the ends of said wires being carried across adjacent cleats of the circumferential series and secured under tension.

2. A wirebound package comprising a plurality of circumferentially-mating sides arranged to abut at obtuse angles to each other, a binding wire encircling said sides, a strut extending from side to side of said series, and transverse wires attached to said strut and attached under tension to two sides of the circumferential series flanking the strut, said wires encircling the circumferent-icl binding wire,

8. A Wirebound package comprising a plurality of circumferentially-mating sides arranged to abut at obtuse angles to each other, a strut extending from side to side of said series, and transverse Wires attached to said strut and attached under tension to tWo sides of the circumferential series flanking the strut.

4l. fr wirebound package comprising a circumferential series of mating "cleats arranged at obtuse angles With relation to each other, a binding'wire encircling said cleats7 anend strut extending from side to side between tivo of said cleats, and Wires extending' transversely of said strut, said Wires be- JEFFERSON VCAYLOR. 

